| coalesced |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of coalesce | |
| The rebel units coalesced into one army to fight the invaders. | |
| According to the process that may have formed the Solar System planets, the surrounding discs of material around the gas giants gradually coalesced into moons. | |
| coalesce |
| 1. v. (of separate elements) To join into a single mass or whole. | |
| The droplets coalesced into a puddle. | |
| 2. v. (of a whole or a unit) To form from different pieces or elements. | |
| The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together. | |
| 3. v. (engineering) To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify. | |
| united |
| 1. v. simple past tense and past participle of unite | |
| 2. adj. Joined into a single entity. | |
| 3. adj. Involving the joint activity of multiple agents. | |
| unite |
| 1. v. To bring together as one. | |
| The new government will try to unite the various factions. | |
| I hope this song can unite people from all different cultures. | |
| 2. v. (reciprocal) To come together as one. | |
| If we want to win, we will need to unite. | |
| 3. n. (historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotla | |
| combined |
| 1. adj. Resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. able to be united together, to converge. | |
| The combined efforts of the emergency workers kept the river from going over its banks, barely. | |
| 2. v. simple past tense and past participle of combine | |
| The cook combined equal parts chocolate and vanilla batter in the cake. | |
| 3. n. (skiing) (ellipsis of alpine combined). An event in alpine skiing consisting of one run of downhill and two runs of slalom. | |
| 4. n. (skiing) (ellipsis of nordic combined). | |
| combine |
| 1. v. To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite. | |
| Combine the milk and the hot water in a large bowl. I'm combining business and pleasure on this trip. | |
| 2. v. To have two or more things or properties that function together. | |
| Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To come together; to unite. | |
| two substances that easily combine | |
| 4. v. (card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie. | |
| 6. n. A combine harvester | |
| We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud. | |
| 7. n. A combination | |
| 8. n. Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes wi | |
| The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges. | |
| 9. n. An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former Soviet bloc. | |
